Word: inamorata
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...getter, international correspondent of the Chicago Globe. He appears on the screen captured by Riffs; he is rescued by the French, to the accompaniment of bullets, and grumbling by the agent of the Times. He goes to Paris, is decorated, and leaves for Moscow with his employer's inamorata, a girl with a soul. There he tricks the members of other papers, sits with Stalin, and generally conducts the sensational journalism of which he is an advocate. He is encouraged by Kate, a newspaperwoman, who, rather obviously, really cares for him, and whom he does not appreciate. Eventually...
...shows an overgrown lout named Ronald Colgate (George "Slim" Summerville) trying to escape from the apron strings of an idiotically devoted mother (Laura Hope Crews) long enough to pay court to the nurse (Zasu Pitts) in a department store depositary for infants. When Ronald finally manages to marry his inamorata, Mrs. Colgate follows them to Niagara Falls on their honeymoon, spoils their fun. Finally friends of the young couple arrange to have Ronald witness his wife being abducted. This leads him to leap out of the wheel chair to which his mother has reduced him, establish his independence...
...cronies idolized him, thought him a dayspring from on high, a light to lighten his people. But young Solal's fatal beauty kindled passion in Adrienne, Gentile wife of the French consul. Discovered, they fled to Italy. Old Uncle Saltiel, sent after them, persuaded Solal away from his inamorata, thought he had left him safe in boarding school. But Solal wanted a better school: he ran away and wandered the world...
Paramount invariably gives Director Lubitsch expert casts and this time he had Herbert Marshall for the role of a romantic crook, Miriam Hopkins for the crook's accomplice and inamorata, and Kay Francis for the patrician lady they set out to rob. Miss Francis obligingly makes Herbert Marshall her secretary and then falls in love with...
...Passage, by Robert Lord, is several notches above the Warner average. An escaped murderer (William Powell) meets a charming lady (Kay Francis) in a Hongkong bar. They fall in love. The next time they meet, on shipboard, the murderer is on his way to be hanged. His inamorata expects to die very shortly of a weak heart. Each learns of the other's predicament. They do not reveal their knowledge to each other. Before they part at San Francisco, they gaily engage to meet on New Year's Eve at Agua Caliente. A quiet, sharp, romantic tragedy...